After reading Pippi, we watched the 1974 film version.
It looks 1974'ish - the camera angles, the special effects, the fact that the film was dubbed in English...
And yet, the power of the story came through.
When Pippi was saying good-bye to Tommy and Annika, I looked over at Claire who was sitting beside me on the couch. I noticed that she was crying. "I don't want her to leave her friends" she said tearfully. "But I want her to be with her dad".
These moments are beautiful to me - they are when the Truth in a story comes out and speaks to our own sense of Truth of what is right and wrong in the world, of what could or should be. Pippi is fictional but what the story says about friendship, about fun, about wonder is Truth.
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